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Message no. 1
From: Snake Eyes snake.eyes@***.net
Subject: "Free" Online PDF Maker
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 22:52:57 -0700
This looks promising for those of us who don't have access to the full
version of Adobe Acrobat. The "trial" gives you three free conversions,
then you have to pay a subscription fee. Has anyone here tried it
yet? Pricing seems reasonable as opposed to the cost of the full retail
product.

<http://createpdf.adobe.com>;

~ Snake Eyes
Message no. 2
From: Augustus shadowrun@********.net
Subject: "Free" Online PDF Maker
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:53:45 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: Snake Eyes <snake.eyes@***.net>
>
> This looks promising for those of us who don't have access to the full
> version of Adobe Acrobat. The "trial" gives you three free conversions,
> then you have to pay a subscription fee. Has anyone here tried it
> yet? Pricing seems reasonable as opposed to the cost of the full retail
> product.

If you look for it, there is software for free on the net that will convert
to .pdf format (if you check say... tucows out, they have about 15-20
programs that will convert to .pdf from various file types)

Augustus`
Message no. 3
From: Andrew Gryphon webmaster@*********.com
Subject: "Free" Online PDF Maker
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:18:04 -0500
on 8/20/00 1:53 AM, Augustus at shadowrun@********.net e-scribed:

>> This looks promising for those of us who don't have access to the full
>> version of Adobe Acrobat. The "trial" gives you three free
conversions,
>> then you have to pay a subscription fee. Has anyone here tried it
>> yet? Pricing seems reasonable as opposed to the cost of the full retail
>> product.
>
> If you look for it, there is software for free on the net that will convert
> to .pdf format (if you check say... tucows out, they have about 15-20
> programs that will convert to .pdf from various file types)

If you have a Mac, you can get Print2PDF which will allow you to make a PDF
from *any* app with a print command. OS X will have PDF creation built into
the OS, so I imagine WinDOS won't be far behind.

--
Andrew Gryphon
http://www.Wyrmworks.com
Taking Role-Playing to the next level
Message no. 4
From: Wordman wordman@*******.com
Subject: "Free" Online PDF Maker
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:39:12 -0400
> If you have a Mac, you can get Print2PDF which will allow you to
> make a PDF from *any* app with a print command. OS X will have
> PDF creation built into the OS, so I imagine WinDOS won't be far
> behind.

Unfortunately, the logic that because x shows up on the MacOS, it will soon
show up on Win32 does not (necessarily) follow in this case.

The reason OSX will have such good support of PDF is that Apple is making
PDF is default image type (instead of PICT). For those that don't know what
a PICT is, it is a graphics format that plays as crucial a role in MacOS as
BMP plays in Win32. Apple is moving all of its graphics systems to Display
PostScript.

None of this is happening for Win32, as far as I know. So, if print to PDF
does come to Win32 soon, it will not be for the same reason it came to
MacOS. It might happen anyway (and, I think, actually that it is) but for
different reasons.

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